Meet Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri. The Senate just narrowly voted 51 to 48 against his amendment, called the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act, or the Blunt amendment. The proposed law was a response to the Obama Administration's rule that all insurance plans provide free birth control, and would have let any employer opt out of providing health care coverage that violated their conscience Read more

If you're an avid watcher of Gossip Girl, you may have caught a real-life detail worked into last season's story line. Blair Waldorf is set to marry a prince from Monaco, but the country's royal family will not tolerate another scandal since Prince Albert has illegitimate children. It's true. The sovereign prince has had two confirmed children out of wedlock. Jazmin Grace Grimaldi was born in Read more

In big — and expensive — cities like San Francisco and New York, it's completely socially acceptable to live with your partner if you're not married. In fact, people might give you an inquisitive look if they find out you did not cohabitate before marriage. But US society in general still holds a traditional view of marriage, and a new study of 22,000 people shows that strident collective Read more

When conservative ex-presidential candidate Mike Huckabee attacked Natalie Portman for her pregnancy, I'd like to think it comes off as predictable and almost comical to most. Channeling Dan Quayle's Murphy Brown moment, Huckabee said: "Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, 'Hey look, you know, we're having children, we're not married, but we're having these children, Read more

Mike Huckabee attacks Natalie Portman for glamorizing out-of-wedlock pregnancy — Media Matters More Americans support legal abortion, gay marriage than ever before — Nerve Happy people live longer — Telegraph The Dior show went on today without Galliano — Huffington Post Prince William and Kate Middleton will not be writing their own voes — People Kendra Wilkinson originally wanted a Read more

A new report by the National Marriage Project has found that American children are more likely to have unmarried parents than divorced ones. According to data from the CDC, 42 percent of children have lived with cohabitating parents by the time they're 12, compared to the 24 percent whose parents have divorced. Not surprisingly, there's a class divide, with poorer, less-educated people being Read more